Burnt remains of block-maker found in cemetery grave

Oct 07, 2017 News

The burnt remains suspected to be the
missing block-maker, Mahendra Ghanie, has been found

Police have detained four men after unearthing the burnt remains a missing 21-year-old Bloomfield, Berbice block maker in a cemetery at around 15:00 hrs yesterday.
Relatives of the missing man, first found several pieces of bones from a five-foot deep hole near the home of one of the suspects, located in the Number 55 Cemetery.
Police later unearthed more bones. They have since detained four men, including a tile-layer who is the victim’s employee, and three of the tile-layer’s workers.
Police confirmed that they have obtained confessions from two of the suspects, who have indicated that the victim, Mahendra Ghanie, also known as “Sanjay, was slain because he was suspected of stealing two goats from his boss.
“All we found were bones, and we have to do an analysis to confirm that these are his remains,” a senior police official said.
“We also found what appeared to be fragments of a cellphone.”
Ghanie, of Lot 196 Bloomfield Village, Corentyne, disappeared on Monday, after telling his mother, Indranie Seenarine that he was leaving for work at the cemetery yard where his employer, ‘Bobby’ and ‘Jah Jah’ live.
According to Seenarine, her son came to her sometime around 17:30 hrs and told he that “Jah Jah call fuh meh go wuk.”
She said he left home about an hour later and at approximately 20:00hrs he called her to say that he had arrived at his place of employment at Number 55 Village Cemetery yard. She stated that she never heard from him again.
“I tried calling his cellphone the next day, but (got) no answer. I called all day and nothing”, Seenarine said. On Wednesday, she made a missing person’s report and also tried calling her son once again. She decided to launch a search with her children along with other relatives. They searched the cemetery yard yesterday and were about to give up when they noticed what appeared to be a hole near a fence.
The victim’s brother, Razack Ghanie, told Kaieteur News that he called on his cousin to assist him in checking the hole. As they dug, he discovered what appeared to be a human bone. Four other bone fragments were discovered, together with a piece of cloth which matched the colour of the shirt his brother was wearing when he left home.

The five-foot hole where
the bones were discovered

Relatives said they also found a phone in the hole. They immediately contacted the police.
“When the police come dem tek ah crime scene tape and tape off the area but when dem dig dem find mo bones”, he said.
Kaieteur News also understands that during a search, residents of the Number 55 Village, contacted Ghanie’s relatives and reportedly told them that the blockmaker’s boss was seen lighting a ‘big fire’ behind of his house.
Meanwhile, according to the missing young man’s mother, about five weeks ago, her son and his boss were involved in an argument after the man accused her son of stealing his SIM card.
“Sanjay showed him the SIM card and it turn out, that is not he own, and them did argue and Sanjay did stop work, and then them make up and everything been seem okay”.
She claimed that this was the only issue that she knew about between the two.
The employer and a worker were arrested on Thursday while two other workers were arrested yesterday morning.
Ghanie resided in Bloomfield with his mother, two sisters and one brother. His father is expected to return to Guyana today.